A group of armed North Carolina citizens exercised their right to open-carry and stood guard outside Alamance County Republican headquarters Saturday after the office was vandalized on Friday.

The citizens, armed with AR-15s and other firearms, were members of Alamance County Open Carry. They stood beside an American flag and a Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag.

WCNC spoke to one of the citizens who decided to stand guard. “We are here to support freedom,” he said. “The people that vandalize these places, they are cowards. But we’re not. We support the Second Amendment and we want everybody to vote.”

He added that the group supported the votes of everyone, not just Republicans.

Burlington police have not made any arrests in connection with the vandalism.

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It’s good to see these patriots take a stand against the jerks who vandalized the building. Something tells me the vandals won’t be coming back around once they get word that the building is being guarded by armed citizens.

This is just one several attacks that have been carried out on Republican offices across the country. Vandalism goes back as far as January, when eventual presidential nominee Donald Trump’s headquarters in Littleton, Massachusetts, was broken into and vandalized. Another North Carolina GOP headquarters office was firebombed last month.

Anti-Trumpers have resorted to vandalizing the homes of Trump supporters and even defacing Trump’s Hollywood star. These people have no couth, which shouldn’t be too surprising, considering the woman they’ll probably vote for in the general election.

Liberals like to claim they’re the tolerant party, but their actions prove them to be just the opposite.